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Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.

The Silent Type

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

The Role of Water in African American History

Have historians privileged land-based models and ignored how African Americans participated in aquatic activities?
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The History of History

How historians and educators have written and taught about different eras of the American past.

Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two non gender-conforming people in London, 1869.

What is Trans History?

From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
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The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."

Writing Jewish History

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

Historians Have Long Thought Populism Was a Good Thing. Are They Wrong?

Today’s populist resurgence has us rethinking the role these movements play in U.S. politics.

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.
Political cartoon of the Populist Party python eating the Democratic Party donkey.

The Myth of 'Populism'

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

1968’s Chaos: The Assassinations, Riots and Protests that Defined Our World

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.
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The Future of our Confederate Monuments Rests With the Kids

The perspectives of older Americans have dominated the debate. It's time we pay more attention to what younger people have to say.
People gathered around the Arlington confederate monument

The History of the History of American Slavery

In an age when the White House is being asked if slavery was a good or bad thing, perhaps we should take a look at the history of the history of slavery.

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

Our Cold War World

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

Civil War Life in all its Day-to-Day Contrasts

In his latest work of history, Edward Ayers captures daily life along with the military and political moves.

University History Departments Have a Race Problem

The alt-right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

The Power Historian

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

Thomas Jefferson and Us

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?
Two American soldiers in Pleiku, South Vietnam, home to an American airbase in May 1967.

Studying the Vietnam War

How the scholarship has changed.

The Fallacy of 1619

Rethinking the history of Africans in early America.
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Trump and the Historians

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

A World of Weapons: Historians Shape Scholarship on Arms Trading

The early history of American arms trading is missing from most of the scholarship on guns.

The Two Andrew Jacksons

Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.
Black legislators behind the title "The Future of Reconstruction Studies."

The Future of Reconstruction Studies

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.

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